In eclipse, is there a way to specify a location other than the WEB-INF, for web.xml

Question

I want to place development web.xml in another folder in eclipse.

Answer 1

You might want to use Apache Ant for that purpose. You may define a "conf" directory and place all you config files there, or a resource directory for the same reason.

If haven't use ant for that purpose, I strongly recommend you to do so.

Here is a sample ant build.xml for a web app Sample Build.XML

I'll use Maven myself, but since you're just beginning, Ant would be just fine.

Answer 2

I am using the eclipse builder and not ant. Actually what i did was that i defined web.xml in another folder. So now I have two web.xml, one for welogic with a lot weblogic specific stuff like filters. And i have another for development which i placed in another folder, in the web project and added this folder to the deployment descriptor for tomcat in eclipse. So now when i deploy the application, the web.xml for tomcat which is in my specified folder owerwrites the web.xml present in web-INF folder(in the deployment directory). Looks to me a nice workaround.